Archives for
December 2007

Ah, Microsoft. Always late to the game. Maybe it's a part of their strategy: wait until Google (Picasa Web Albums) and Yahoo (Flickr) establish solid market positions, and then develop or buy an (usually inferior) product of their own and try to corn...

It was announced on Friday that AOL, formerly America Online, has stopped selling online videos, and, instead, have teamed up with Amazon's Unbox service. Just over a year old, it seems that AOL wants to shift all of its focus to the advertising busi...

A report from the New York Times implies that Facebook misled advertisers who signed on to be “Landmark Partners” when the company announced its Beacon platform on November 6th. According to Coca-Cola’s vice president of global interactive marketing:...

The staff of the new Silverlight-powered media site, t5m, is off in Johannesburg, South Africa to cover the World AIDS Day concert. Sadly, they didn't think to put any effort in to their site before leaving. While it's commendable that any site bring...

Amazon-owned Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has filed a trademark application for the term “SoundUnwound.” According to the filing, the trademark would cover: “Providing information regarding, and in the nature of, social networking services; online ...

This afternoon one of our readers alerted us to some plagiarism of Mashable content. While seeing Mashable stories re-printed word-for-word on splogs is nothing new, the source here was somewhat surprising: Associated Content. The company has raised ...

Second Life users need to be cautious with Quicktime embedded videos in the game as it may be used to pick your pocket of Linden Dollars. Charles Miller and Dino Dai Zovi, of Independent Security Evaluators, have found that by using a flaw in Quickti...

As we discussed the other day, Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, was going after 02138mag.com for publishing documents from his time at Harvard. The social network founder was requesting the documents be pulled due to them violating his privacy. Accor...

Six Apart, the blogging software and services company, has sold its network of topic-based blogging communities LiveJournal, Inc. to SUP, an international media company based in Russia. The financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Hav...

The United Nations is going green in an appropriate manner for its Climate Summit, which is being nicknamed the Virtual Bali Conference due to its green efforts--the organization will be streaming the Climate Summit live, beginning tomorrow and throu...

All you Wikipedia users out there will be happy to know that you can now legally mix your Wikipedia content with Creative Commons content. The two have penned a deal with the Free Software Foundation in order to extend a common manner in which the th...

NASA is the latest to take on additional social networking tools for the purpose of attracting more users. With about 1 million unique views per month, NASA is catering directly towards the Facebook crowd, in so many words--the 18 to 25 year olds. Th...

Universal Music is going to test out the concept of DRM-free music, but not with their big gun artists... yet. Now available through the DG Web Shop, Universal is using their classical music division Deutsche Grammophon to test out how sales of a DRM...

RockYou has pushed ahead with a top Facebook App yet again with a 112% increase in the last three months, coming out on top, over Slide and all the others. Thanks to its chart-topping Super Wall application, RockYou has maintained its reign over Face...

Gaia, the avatar-filled virtual world, has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Sony Pictures. You may be wondering why. It appears to be, in part, for building out Gaia theaters, where users can congregate in virtual rooms for the purpose ...

Yes, there are tons of email options out there beyond Gmail; some are even bigger in terms of user numbers, but let's be honest: Gmail is the leader here, and everyone else just follows suit. This is our coverage of some important Gmail milestones, a...

Digg Explorer is not a completely new tool - it's recently reached version 1.1 - but it has somehow slipped under the radar. It offers a visual representation of various Digg-related statistics: most popular Digg sections and subsections, often used ...

Asterpix is officially launching its site to the public today. Though already live, the site has been operating in public beta for the past three months. We first checked out Asterpix's video hyperlinking tools back in September, and immediately noti...

Despite the recent Beacon controversy, Federated Media Publishing has joined the Facebook bandwagon. They have signed partnership with the owners of Facebook app Graffiti and Watercooler Inc., a company that's responsible for all those Addicted To Th...

TiVo is really aiming to become more web integrated, this time bringing photo-sharing tools to its DVR service. Photobucket and Google's Picasa can now be accessed and shared through TiVo, in HD. Access to these photo-sharing tools are available at n...

The Web 2.0 Marketplace is a place to list Web 2.0 and “New Media” websites for sale, job offers, consulting services, Facebook development services and more. New Listings SXP.com Website and Domain for Sale SXP.com, also SocialXperience.com, is a ne...

Have you ever said to yourself “I’m in the mood for a chicken souvlaki sandwich but not sure where I can get one”? That’s the problem FoodieBytes tries to solve through a new restaurant search engine launching a public beta today in 5 different metro...

NBC and Apple have officially broken up. The single largest partner for digital video, with more than 1,500 hours of programming making up nearly 40% of iTunes video content, has officially pulled all of its content from the iTunes store. The contrac...

MoveOn.org made quite a fuss about Facebook's Project Beacon, and Facebook seemed to listen. Could it be because of participating retailers pulling out of Beacon as a result of all that ruckus? Overstock.com and Travelocity both removed their compani...

In an odd turn of events, Universal artist Colbie Calliat has sent an email to her fans explaining why MySpace users can no longer post full versions of her songs to their social networking profile pages. This is apparently a new rule being institute...

As a reminder, the nomination phase of the Open Web Awards ends tomorrow night at 11:59pm PST. Here on Mashable there are 13 different categories for which you can make nominations, while there are dozens of additional posts on our blog partners. A c...

What a day for Apple. After officially losing the contract with Universal for television and film content, the company is closing in on a deal with News Corp's Twentieth Century Fox for offering new releases and other movie titles on iTunes. The movi...

TVWeek downplays the ability for independent producers to come online and make money with their independent online ventures. That's understandable. I won't ascribe to them an unspoken bias against New Media, since only the absolutely most informed We...

GoLark is an upcoming event promotions tool that follows two distinct measures for organizing its site: posting and searching events. In order to better find events in your city, GoLark has instituted a voting feature that lets popular events rise to...

Another milestone for Facebook applications. Inigral, the company that created the Courses app that lets you find others in your college classes to share notes and thoughts, has raised a round from The Founders Fund totaling $500,000. Angel investors...

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